The Arizona sentinel., 1887-03-19
HOME AND FARM.

hAbNAACn IS bu0 UCSG Ol all windows for plants; the steam from boilers and kettles keeps the air moist.
 A prolific tree of salable apples brings much more money from the ground it occupies than it would with most farm crops.
 Crisp vegetables have as much effect on the relish of cows dinner as does celery, or some green fruit on a mans dinner. An occasional feed oi sugar beets or other vegetables. helps the appetite; and digestion, in part, by the increase of saliva secreted. -
 Western Rural
 Bleaching: For new muslin or yell low cloths allow for thirty yards oi cloth one and half pounds chloride of lime; put in bag and dissolve in enough cold water to cover the cloth. Rinse. Scald yellow blankets in suds made of white soap and ammonia CiRcinnGti Times.
 -Rump Steak a la Mode: Put the steak in a saucepan with a sliced onlon, a little whole allspice, two bay leaves, pepper, salt, a teaspoonful of Drowned bread crumbs or grated crusts, and sufficient vinegar diluted with water to cover it; stew gently for two or three hours, according to the weight of the meat. This dish is ex- cellent cold.
 How to induce cattle to eat corn stalks is a difficulty that has been over come by a Maine farmer, who sprinkled hot brine over the stalks. The cornstalks are fed, with the fodder and husks, without cutting, and if well cured, he says the stock will leave but little uneaten. It is more ecomical, however, to pass them through fod- der-cutter.
 A cheap and convenient disinfect- ant for poultry houses may be pre- pared by mixing one bushel of finely sifted dirt and one pound of chloride of lime. If fine tobacco dust be added it will assist in preventing lice. The dirt so prepared may be dusted over the floors or in any portion of the poultry house, and it will greatly assist in keeping off disease and vermin. The cost is but trifle. N E. Farmer.
 The following recipe for keeping moths out of clothing is a favorite in some families: Mix half a pint of alcohol, the same quantity of spirits of turpentine and two ounces of camphor. Keep in stone bottle, and shake be- fore using. The clothes or furs are to be wrapped in linen, and crumpled up pieces of plotting paper dipped in the liquid are to be placed in a box with them. so that it smells strong. This requires renewing about once a year.
 -Kesiah's Sponge Cake: Beat the yolks of three eggs we'll, and the whites until they pile up in a snowy mass; put these with one heaping cup of fine sugar; beat five minutes at least Thor oughly mix one heaplng teaspoonful of bakipg-powder in one cup of sifted flour and beat ten minutes, add one half-cup of cold water. beat in evenly, add one cup more four, beat again, and bake in deep pan in a quick oven.- Goo" Cheer.
 Rotating crops and turning under vegetable matter is manuring in Itself, and is the best maturing we can do; il is permanent if regularly kept up. We see land that has been annually heavily and expensively fertilized with com mercial fertilizers that is getting more exhausted every year. I account for it in this way, that the land lacks humus (decayed vegetation), and without humus, manures do but little good Geolgia Cor. Dirie Farmer.